Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the week's biggest mobile gaming releases with reviews and trailers. This week includes summer blockbuster tie-in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Game Bakers' underwater strategy game Squids Wild West.

The Amazing Spider-Man is ambitious for a mobile game, offering an open-world experience. It's a sizeable city to swing through, where Spider-Man will come across random street muggings to stop, challenges to complete and dozens of missions that will advance a story very loosely based on the film.

The combat takes cues from Batman's recent video games and simplifies it for the touch screen, as players mash on the attack button and press dodge to deftly counter-attack enemies. Completing missions causes Spider-Man to gain experience and level up, allowing players to build his strength and unlock new combos.

Unfortunately, the controls aren't always up to the task. Swinging around the city is accomplished by holding the jump button, which is frequently unresponsive and often decides of its own accord to detach Spider-Man's webbing mid-swing.

The dodgy controls are compounded by missions that rely on time limit, causing the entire mission to restart upon failure - even if players have fought their way through waves of enemies to reach a boss. Despite The Amazing Spider-Man's ambitions, the game's imprecise controls aren't suited to letting players do whatever a spider can.

Unstoppable Fist brings pick-up and play arcade action to iOS. Players control the aviator glasses and mullet-clad hero as he punches and kicks his way to glory against incoming chickens, fish, scorpions, bats, monkeys and more. Sprites are large and fantastically animated, so that the game is overflowing with personality.

Punches fly by tapping low, medium or high on either the right or left sides of the screen. There are also more advanced manoeuvres, like tapping both sides at once or swiping to attack all three zones on a given side. It becomes incredibly addicting.

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As the difficulty gradually ramps up the longer players survive. Death is frequent, but the menus quickly bring you right back into the action for a constant stream of telling yourself 'just one more try'. Unstoppable Fist is aptly named, as once you get started it's a hard one to put down.

The zombie genre isn't anything new to mobile devices, but it's never looked quite this good before. Dead Trigger is a true graphical showpiece for the Unity Engine, with environments, weapons and the shambling undead animated and rendered to look like the game belongs on a home console.

The eerily good visuals come at a cost though, as players will find themselves fighting through only a few similar looking corridors to make the suitably lengthy campaign feel like you're simply retreading the same levels each time.

While the levels don't offer much variety, there is much more diversity in weapon options. Pistols, sub-machine guns, assault rifles and shotguns come in several forms, each with unique statistics to make them sufficiently change how you play.

However, they are priced ridiculously high to unlock, requiring players to either slog through the already repetitive levels ad nauseam or shell out real money to see all the game has to offer.

The core game is already at a rock-bottom price, making the in-app purchases easier to accept, but players would likely have been more happy to pay a higher cost up front for a more balanced weapon progression. Dead Trigger has style to spare, but the reliance on in-app purchases kills some of its substance.

Fans of strategy RPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics and Shining Force will be delighted by Squids Wild West. The underwater adventure expertly brings tactical combat to touchscreens, as players slingshot their squids across the battlefield.

Squid troops fall under four categories such as healers, scouts and shooters, each of which has its own unique abilities. For example, one shooter may be able to move further while another can shoot twice per turn, with players strategically choosing which units are the right fit for a particular battle and their preferred play style.

All of the game's strategy is wrapped in an utterly charming underwater world. The wild west theme is used to add personality to the sandy scenery, while players can also equip their squids with various cowboy hats to enhance their stats or find wild seahorses to ride into battle.

The developers at The Game Bakers already proved they could make a great game with Squids last year, and now with Squids Wild West they have turned it into one of the deepest and most enjoyable franchises on iOS.